Are you preparing for climate change in your area or hoping it can be reduced, stopped or reversed?

[Kaleva]

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	I'm preparing for the changes forecasted in my area
	4 (50%)
	I'm thinking about preparing
	1 (13%)
	Im not thinking about or actually making preparations for reasons I may post
	3 (38%)
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[Gabi Hayes]

1. You mean this?

[MineralMan]

2. I live in the Twin Cities, MN

Not much preparation to do here. If we get more snow, it'll be more snow and more work with my snowblower. If we get worse storms in the Spring and Summer, I still have my basement, and there's no way to prepare for a tornado, anyhow. I live near the top of what passes for a hill here, so there's no real flooding risk. Basically, we'll get more of what we already get, one way or another at this latitude in the heart of the continent.

More snow, less snow, more rain and heavy storms or fewer. That's what will happen here. I can deal, so there aren't any preparations to make, really.

[Kaleva]

4. Upper Michigan can expect to see wetter summers and milder winters

[radical noodle]

3. I'm in central Florida

an equal distance from the coasts. I'm also 69 years old. We hope climate change can be reduced or stopped and vote for those who want to try to reverse it, but there's little we can do to prepare for it in terms of what will occur before we die. If someone has suggestions to share, I'd certainly be willing to listen.

[Kaleva]

7. Would you try to convince your adult children en to move to an area that won't be underwater.

Assuming you have adult children who have families of their own.

[dembotoz]

5. bought flood insurance for the first time...minimal risk so minimal expense

seems we are getting more invasive plants and insects than before but since i do not garden so far impact has been minimal

[hlthe2b]

6. I lived through the shocker 1997 Fort Collins Spring Creek flash flood that killed five

in central Fort Collins, destroyed two vulnerable trailer parks--sending its residents scurrying to try to make it up trees--several to no avail-- all the while most (on higher land had no clue what was going on, other than an intense rain storm). By morning the devastation was clear (including much on the campus of CSU)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Creek_(Fort_Collins,_Colorado)

Ironically, this flood was almost to the day the anniversary of the infamous Big Thompson Flood of 1976--the deadliest (144 dead) in recorded CO history. In 2013 much of the same areas suffered an incredible (if less deadly) mass flood. So, I already knew the risks of flash floods in canyon country--but in the middle of Fort Collins? Wow.


So, no I don't take climate change lightly. I feel very sorry for those who have to face their children and grandchildren. We, as a society have truly let them down. I do what I can to limit my own addition to the problem, but it depresses me to think how little good it will do.

[Javaman]

8. nothing I do will prepare me.

I live in central Texas.

in 20 years, it's predicted to be like the surface of the sun here.

other than that, my GF and I hare preparing an escape plan.

we found a place, that hopefully will only be marginally effected during our lifetimes, which should be about 30 to 35 years more.

but given the latest news about only 5% of climate change will be mitigated, no one is safe no matter where you go or what you do.

[Kaleva]

9. Moving or planning on moving is preparation.

I myself see no need to move as in some ways, climate change where I reside is expected to bring some positive changes such as milder winters and a longer growing season.

I do expect that harmful climate change in other regions will have an impact though . More political and social strife, less food and so on.

[Javaman]

11. moving isn't preparation, it's delaying the inevitable. nt

[Kaleva]

13. Climate change won't affect all areas the same across the board.

Some regions may see what people would consider an improvement in the weather. Milder winters and longer growing seasons with warmer rather then the normal cool summers.

[Javaman]

23. I think it's just semantics at this point.

everything is going to be effected. Mostly bad, with islands of tolerable.

[HAB911]

10. Not much to do here

I'm 26 miles from the coast, 45' above sea level, and 67 yrs old. I am having problems growing things as it is hot as hell here now.

[hunter]

12. There are many ways to prepare pork.

http://allrecipes.com/recipes/205/meat-and-poultry/pork/

[crosinski]

14. Lower South West Michigan Here.

We're upgrading our air conditioning and adding more insulation this year. Our winters are getting milder, but summers are getting longer and will soon be mostly unbearably hot. Also, we've decided to stock six months of basic food items in case of shortages caused by drought and population movement north. We're trying to figure out what we can realistically do at our age, we're retired, and it's difficult.

[roamer65]

15. We may need to build a wall at the Ohio & Indiana border.

Build that wall!

Seriously, we don't want right wing Trumpistas up here. Let them drown.

[LeftInTX]

16. I'm in San Antonio TX, we have been on water restrictions almost every summer for the past 8 years

Our yards are becoming more heat and drought proof.

Always saving up for a better A/C - never know when it will break down.

Heat and drought are part of Texas life.

The main way climate change effects weather here: Longer summers -argh. It drags on until mid-November.

The only good news is tropical plants can survive our winters.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Yep, me, Pablo and Uniqua got it all figured out.

[Iggo]

18. By voting for Democrats, yes.

[jrandom421]

19. Got more immediate things to worry about

Live on the Washington Coast, and while climate change is important, the coming Cascadia Subduction Zone Quake is far more immediate. Geologists from U of W say a subduction zone quake off the coast is long over due and could reach a magnitude of 9.0 or higher. That's been the focus of emergency management for the past 3 years.

For most people living here, climate change won't be real, unless it rains less than 100 inches in a year. That's the Olympic National Forest and Park, where it averages 140 inches a year.

[Luciferous]

20. We are planning on moving back up north

next year so we will most likely be in an area that won't have too many negative effects.

[Kaleva]

21. Link to a great deal of info for the Great Lakes region

https://record.umich.edu/articles/climate-change-profoundly-alter-great-lakes-region-report-says

[crosinski]

22. Thanks for the very useful link.

We looked at what the University of Michigan had to say about climate change for this area when we moved here thirty years ago. It was the nearly same then, and they were absolutely right. The two things that I don't remember them mentioning, and that we didn't count on, are the mosquitoes and tics!

Our first home in Michigan was between small lakes with lots of marsh and low land that flooded easily. The tics grew to monstrous size in the spring, and after a rain you couldn't make it from the house to the car without a mosquito hit squad attack. In late summer, small biting flies joined the free food party. In our twenty years there, the summers got wetter and hotter, and autumn was always a huge relief. So, from that experience, we had our first lesson in how climate change is really a cascading set of events, and you never know exactly how you're going to get caught up in them.

Now we're nearer Lake Michigan in a 'mircro climate.' We hope that'll be a good thing, but honestly don't know. The land drains far better here, so there are fewer bugs of all kinds. (We are giddily grateful for that.) Now we do what we can for what we know is coming, and stay flexible for everything else.

Currently, I see that we're going to lose some of our US wheat crop to drought. Maybe a good deal of it.